Urban Space and Urban History in the Roman World Studies in Roman Space and Urbanism Series

This volume investigates how urban growth and prosperity transformed the cities of the Roman Mediterranean in the last centuries BCE and the fi rst centuries CE, integrating debates about Roman urban space with discourse on Roman urban history.

The contributions explore how these cities developed landscapes full of civic memory and ritual, saw commercial priorities transforming the urban environment, and began to expand signifi cantly beyond their wall circuits. These interrelated developments not only changed how cities looked and could be experienced, but they also affected the functioning of the urban community and together contributed to keeping increasingly complex urban communities socially cohesive. By focusing on the transformation of urban landscapes in the Late Republican and Imperial periods, the volume adds a new, explicitly historical angle to current debates about urban space in Roman studies. Confronting archaeological and historical approaches, the volume presents developments in Italy, Africa, Greece, and Asia Minor, thus significantly broadening the geographical scope of the discussion and offering novel theoretical perspectives alongside well- documented, thematic case studies.

Urban Space and Urban History in the Roman World will be of interest to anyone working on Roman urbanism or Roman history in the Late Republic and early Empire.

1. From urban space to urban history – an introduction

Miko Flohr

PART I. EXPERIENCING THE CITY

2. Political space and the experience of citizenship in the city of Rome: architecture and interpellation

Amy Russell

3. Emotion and the city: the example of Pompeii

Annette Haug

4. Hilltops, heat, and precipitation: Roman urban life and the natural environment

Miko Flohr

PART II. COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, AND URBAN SPACE

5. Topographical permeability and the dynamics of public space in Roman Minturnae

Patric-Alexander Kreuz

6. Antique statuary and urban identity in Roman Greece

Christopher P. Dickenson

7. Women in the forum: the cases of Italy and Roman North Africa

Cristina Murer

8. Religion in the urban landscape: the special case of Rome

Marlis Arnhold

PART III. COMMERCE AND THE URBAN LANDSCAPE

9. Sacred transactions: religion and markets in Roman urbanism

Elizabeth Fentress

10. Fora and commerce in Roman Italy

Miko Flohr

11. The archaeology of urban workshops in the Roman Maghreb

Touatia Amraoui

12. The ports of Roman Lycia: urbanism, networks, and hierarchies

Candace M. Rice

PART IV. URBAN LIFE BEYOND THE CITY WALLS

13. Urban borderscapes in Roman Italy: arenas for social, political and cultural interaction

Saskia Stevens

14. The tabernae outside Porta Ercolano in Pompeii and their context

Sandra Zanella

15. Roman roads as an indicator of urban life: the Via Appia near Rome

Stephan T.A.M. Mols and Eric Moormann

Miko Flohr is Lecturer in Ancient History at Leiden University. His research focuses on the archaeology of urban economies in Roman Italy. He published the monograph The World of the Fullo: Work, Economy and Society in Roman Italy(2013), and co-edited the volumes Craftsmen and Traders in the Roman World (2016), and The Economy of Pompeii (2017). He is currently preparing a monograph on the architectural and economic history of the taberna and co-editing Companion to Cities in the Greco-Roman World.